The Multiple Realities of Multilingualism : : Personal Narratives and Researchers’ Perspectives / / ed. by Elka Todeva, Jasone Cenoz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Cenoz, Jasone,; Fantini, Alvino E.,; Freedman, Sally,; Henshaw, Hamzah,; Hu, Haiyan,; Kamanga, Chimwemwe Mayinde Mystic,; Kowalski, Charles,; O’Flaherty, Neil,; Popovic, Radmila,; Tappe, Heike M. E.,; Todeva, Elka,; Tonkin, Humphrey,; Wildsmith-Cromarty, R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cenoz, Jasone,; Todeva, Elka,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)

This book is the very first collection of first-person language learning narratives that offers rich introspective data on the various processes and forces shaping the development and maintenance of multiple languages (seven and more) in a single individual. The writers are twelve multilinguals who...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Multilingualism: Emic and etic perspectives
• Chapter 2 A long, adventurous road to (im)perfection
• Chapter 3 Multilingualism as a kaleidoscopic experience: The mini universes within
• Chapter 4 My ways to Rome: Routes to multilingualism
• Chapter 5 Incomplete journeys: A quest for multilingualism
• Chapter 6 The joys and pitfalls of multiple language acquisition: The workings of the mind of a simultaneous multilingual
• Chapter 7 A life of learning languages
• Chapter 8 Linguistic cunning: From Burton to babelfish
• Chapter 9 A “new breed” of American?
• Chapter 10 Where art and nature meet
• Chapter 11 A multilingual journey from East to West
• Chapter 12 Roots, branches and seeds
• Chapter 13 Expanding languages, expanding worlds
• Chapter 14 The well and the bucket: The emic and etic perspectives combined
• Backmatter